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cécile

@haraiva.bsky.social

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graphic designer ✦ game maker ✦ sports enjoyer ✦ lithgow panther truther ✦ haraiva.itch.io ✦ cecilerichard.design working on my IF game DAWN CHORUS writer/narrative @ghoulish.com.au editor @fine-fiends.bsky.social

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · Apr 22

< portrait on imagined horizon >

a mysterious interactive story, made for DOMINO CLUB's 9th jam: DECLASSIFIED.

📑 ~15-20 min, runs on desktop AND mobile
📁 dominoclub.itch.io/portrait-on-...

a redacted interview of a person talking about a manifesto

a winding piece of text with a polaroid of... something

a description of a polaroid image and its context

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 2h

Wife City, City of Wifes

cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 3h

periodically think about this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Yy...

Tortoise with Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Thunder Road

YouTube video by pickpluckafuc

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 4h

rehearsing is pretty good for getting a sense of how long it takes you to go through it all and also lets you workshop phrasing out loud which is nice. im the "write the entire talk down" type though and the trick for that is essentially to read the talk without looking like youre reading it

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 8h

sounds like theyre just asking people for 350 american dollars

cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 8h

nature's labubu

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 20h

"Nature's Labubu"

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 8h

👀

cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 8h

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 12h

NEVER jog. walk at your preferred pace chest out head straight BE PROUD

cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 13h

inventing a new type of worm (footworm)

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 14h

you HATE italians????

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 14h

YES!!!!!!! i had an inkling haha

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 14h

quoted screenshot above and this one are my favourite posts about sudden death

post from @MoviusC on fka twitter: The weak cunt says in his heart, "I will not play Sudden Death, the Aussie Rules Footy themed interactive fiction from the latest Domino Club game jam."

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 14h

was asked recently if i'd make a sequel/spin-off that focuses on the more rugby league side of things and im thinking... perhaps

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 14h

had a few people mention sudden death to me last week (including at pax lol yay) and well it IS a banger...
dominoclub.itch.io/sudden-death

bsky.app/profile/hara...

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · Apr 25

NEW GAME >>> SUDDEN DEATH is a game about love and sports. it's gay, it's very australian, and it's great.

this game was made for the latest DOMINO CLUB jam with Nat (nat-pussy.itch.io), who co-wrote and did SFX.

18+, linear interactive fiction, ~45 mins
PLAY >>> dominoclub.itch.io/sudden-death

Screenshot from SUDDEN DEATH: a scene with dialogue and character portraits

Screenshot from SUDDEN DEATH: bits of a poem

Screenshot from SUDDEN DEATH: a screenplay about a game of football

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 15h

nope!

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 16h

likely accidental like everything else in the show but alien earth's protagonists reflecting exactly who the audience for the show is (children in adult bodies) is pretty funny to me

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

im thinkin.... i will 👀

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sam 🤦🏼‍♀️ @nintendo-vers.bsky.social · 1d

it's my favvvv time of year, come get dressed up

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

band with a boss...? 🤨

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

yeah im inclined to agree but i dislike that particular aphorism for Reasons and part of it is it tends to erase individual people doing actual work, in favour of the nebulous concept of a "community" which inevitably attracts a certain type of grifter who takes credit for other people's work. lol 😇

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

deciding what kind of music i want to make by surveying the market and pondering the best way to minmax it

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

been having the music/games 'industry' parallel on the mind all the way through games week, and that always leads back to me thinking about steve albini being essentially my standard for the kind of person i want to be in a scene/community. heres a little something from a reddit ama he did ages ago

Connections don't mean shit. I've never had any connections that weren't a natural outgrowth of doing things I was doing anyway. Additionally, the people you might make connections with who work in the industry and value connections themselves, all those people are clueless assholes with no clout anyhow. You can tell because they think they can get somewhere with connections and spend their energy trying to make connections rather than being good at things, and being good at things is the only thing that earns you clout or connections.

It's a myth that you can get anywhere in music through connections. The guy on the other end of the connection has to be into what you're doing, and if you're doing it publicly and he's receptive, he probably hears about it on his own.

Don't worry about anything but making music you like. Everything else is bullshit.

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d

exactly.....

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